Living in the south as a slaved woman, you were subjected to two stereotypes basically, and that was Jezebel and Mammy during the slave era. To be honest things really has not changed that much dealing with those two stereotypes in America today. The stereotypes, somewhat, served to basically cover up all the things that were going on in the system in which the slaves where in within the South. From the reading of Mr. John Miller article, he explained clearly for me that “the Jezebel stereotype attempted to veil the white man's licentious behavior and sexual violation of black women.” Furthermore, he explained that “the Mammy stereotype was created in an attempt to restore a pure image of domestic morality as a result of the white man's …show more content…
Female slavery had a lot of work to do, notwithstanding taking care of the children they beared to continue the slave generation for the slaveholders labor force. "From the very beginning of a woman's enslavement she had to cope with sexual abuse, abuse made legitimate by the conventional wisdom that black women were promiscuous Jezebels" (White). He also gave information on the female slaves life, and how the children had the same routine day in and day out no matter the gender. However whenever puberty hit the women had to find a mate. The young women would be surrounded my other young mothers "which helped them develop a sense of what was expected of them in their future role of mother" (White). The women took on heavily the family duties and responsibility while the men would do all the manual labor, which can still be related to in America today. In my opinion, it was very interesting reading on these matters because you dont hear to much about the woman in the slavery era. A normal person would think of a man, and all his hard manual labor. Woman went through just as much, and on top of that were labeled either as Jezebels or Mammy's. The millions of enslaved women had it pretty tough. "They were the only women in America who were sexually exploited with impunity, stripped and whipped with a lash, and worked like oxen." Hardship and sexual discrimination